Cisco Security Cloud Control Reviews & Insights

The main issue was a scalable solution to manage our fleet of Cisco firepower threat defense firewalls. They are managed locally and manage via FMC. The Cisco Defense Orchestrator was the most financially likeable option. The price point per firewall was great with most features of the FMC on prem device. There were only a handful of features that were not moved to the cloud.

Use case would be if you wanted most of the functionality of the FMC on prem but had no datacenter, cloud presence in AWS, or a cloud presence in Azure for an FMCv. You gain an always up FMC to manage the firewalls due to resiliency of the cloud FMC. You get almost all the functionality of an FMC on prem.

Cisco Defense Orchestrator is a powerful and important software for our company, this is because we use this solution throughout our company to help us with the administration and implementation of security policies in a simpler way, by being able to achieve this we obtain easy management and being able to put aside the hard work of having to implement security policies one by one to keep our infrastructure protected. This Cisco software allows us to control and view all devices from one place, as well as keep informed about whether the security policies work correctly or not.

Cisco Defense Orchestrator is an ideal software to easily manage firewalls at the enterprise level, as well as to implement security policies that allow the corporate infrastructure to remain free of threats that can put at risk all the devices that are handled on a daily basis. For example, it is ideal for preventing network intrusions, since it has the ability to block malware and any suspicious activity. In addition, the fact that it is based on a single console provides the benefit of keeping all devices under view and thus preventing any threat in the simplest way.

Cisco Defense Orchestrator is being used by the network team to manage our Cisco firewalls. Due to the vast number of firewalls, we needed a single plane of management. CDO provides that plus a redundant way to manage the firewalls via their external IP. Additionally, it does monitoring for remote access VPNs which is great to have as opposed to having to log into the firewall to figure that.

It does have templates that can be used, but we haven't made use of that just yet.

It is a great way to manage a vast number of firewalls. It can also be used to upgrade the firewalls as well. Great for monitoring VPN users. Config. standardization is possible.